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The Crime of this "New Age" 



The crime of this "new age" is frenzied speech and action; lack of 
thought, a spurning of deUberation and of the weighing of consequences. 
Fakers with projects to "get rich quick" draw gaping crowds. Mad 
haste is the pastime of the multitude. Automobiles race to carry their 
passengers to death at a mile a minute. The British Board of Trade at- 
tributes the awful sinking of the Titanic, with its cruel sacrifice of life, of 
crew and passengers, to excessive speed. The third term party and 
Candidate Wilson urge the country to like disaster and ruin. 

When the American people, in the quiet of the home fireside, about the 
evening lamp, in the late Autumn days, shall have given careful thought 
to the history of the past; shall have considered the blessings that have 
come from tried policies; when they shall have contemplated the possible 
dangers that may follow from unwise and unripe changes, they will give 
heed to the warning and will not repeat in our political and economic 
fields the frightful and ghastly experience of the Titanic. We Republicans 
are not men worshippers. We contend with Jefferson for "j^rinciples, not 
men." We are free, and we follow blindly no leader and bow to no dic- 
tator. The people always have and the people always will rule. We 
grip our anchor firmly on the Constitution and the American system of 
representative government. The more savage and truculent the attacks 
upon them, the more insolent the bluster, the more steadfast is our stand 
for free institutions, which are the glory of mankind. An untrammelled 
judiciary is their strong bulwark. We warn the electorate not to be 
drowned by a Niagara of denunciation and abuse. Every tirade against 
the Constitution and the law and the courts is a strident call to the Ameri- 
can people to protect their homes and to maintain, inviolate, Constitutional 
government; every assault upon protection a summons to preserve their 
opportunities, to maintain existing conditions, which places the American 
wage earner in every calling on a higher scale of living and civilization than 
enjoyed elsewhere in the world. Such protection can be guaranteed only 
by adequate customs duties, justly and wisely applied, to hold our broad 
and immense home market against the world. Such protection, to be safe 
and certain, must be based upon a Republican protective tariflf. 

The evidence upon which the American electorate will base its verdict 
in November will be submitted upon the hustings, through the press and 
by pleas through the mails. The evidence should be based upon the ex- 
perience of the past. The jury of American people must weigh it well and 
sift the false from the true. The verdict will be rendered within a few hours 
of a single day; its effect will be with us for years. Let no juror reach his 
conclusion, render his verdict, without due care for the welfare of himself, 
his kinsmen and his fellows. 

Speech of Acceptance of Vice-President Sherman, August 21, 1912. 



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